[Sokrates] WG: NEXT WEEK: Lea Ypi Institutskolloquium 12.06. at 10:00 c.t.

[<philos@zedat.fu-berlin.de>]

Dear colleagues,

 

Please join us in welcoming Lea Ypi on Wednesday, 12.06., at 10:00 c.t. for the second Institutskolloquium lecture! She will share a talk from her upcoming book project, which extends the philosophical/biographical approach of her remarkable book, Free.

Please share this announcement widely.

 

Prof. Dr. Lea Ypi (London School of Economics and Political Science)
"Dignity and Historical Injustice: An Albanian Family’s History"
June 12, 10:00 c.t. – 12:00
Institut für Philosophie, „alte Bibliothek“ im Souterrain
Habelschwerdter Allee 30
 
The talk will be in English.
 
Abstract: Professor Lea Ypi reads and discusses a chapter from her new book project which follows the journey of a woman from Ottoman Salonica to a life under surveillance in post-war Communist Albania. The book explores the moral and political meanings of dignity, individual and collective, in connection to questions of truth and reconciliation, historical injustice and the relationship between fact and fiction.
 
No registration is necessary, but questions can be directed to Caleb Ward at caleb.ward@fu-berlin.de.

 

 

 

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Dr. Caleb Ward

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Institut für Philosophie

Freie Universität Berlin

https://www.calebward.xyz/